Schenectady schools on lockout

The Schenectady school district sent a letter to parents this week, notifying them that the school was on a “modified lockout” after a student was shot and killed this weekend.

Alphanzo Pittman, 18, and another man were shot in the Hamilton Hill neighborhood on Saturday night and few details have been released about what happened prior to the shooting.

Here’s a link to the letter, which says the move is necessary to keep children safe. Children are also being prevented from wearing RIP memorial clothing in school, for their own protection, the letter states.

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The problem with sending “letters” home to parents is they are written by bureaucrats to be read by other bureaucrats. Likewise, they are only written in “the king’s english”, when many families speak other languages in the home, like Spanish, Chinese, Farsi, Pashtun, Jive, etc…

The letters cover the school’s collective butt but do not do a very good job of informing..